Golf Short Game

Veteran golfers know that the secret to a lower score is a solid short game, but mastering those small strokes can be maddening - even for the pros. One of golf's most revered instructors, Stan Utley now reveals the step-by-step tactics behind his revolutionary short-game techniques in The Art of the Short Game.

Fed up with trying to imitate the pros, buying the latest expensive equipment, and seeing your handicap stay the same? The pros know, as you are about to learn, that while others teach golfers how to swing, Dave Pelz teaches golfers how to score...and win.

In chapters such as "During Your Swing Is Not the Time to Give Yourself a Lesson" and "How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf," the author guides golfers with simple yet powerful techniques to prepare for, execute, and, equally important, respond to the results of any golf shot. The author, Dr. Joseph Parent, is a PGA Tour Instructor who draws on his teaching experience to offer special methods that have led to amazing improvements in the games of professionals and amateurs alike.

To be a golfer is to tinker-with everything from equipment to grip to swing. But one thing most players don't give enough attention to is the mental game. Psychologists aren't a new phenomenon in golf, but Dr. Michael Lardon is a different breed of performance coach. Instead of sending his players into a losing battle against emotion, indecision, and fear on the golf course, he shows them how to organize their thoughts and use them for maximum performance.

Struggling to get up and down from tricky lies? In Mastering the Short Game: Chipping and Pitching Essentials, discover the secret techniques that can shave strokes off your score by revolutionizing your approach shots. This indispensable 10,000‑word guide breaks down the art of chipping and pitching into simple, proven drills that even the most average golfer can master. Learn how to execute delicate, precision shots with confidence—even from tight bunkers or awkward rough lies—with easy‑to‑follow step-by-step instructions. In this short, easy-to-read guide, you’ll instantly ...

This old adage is familiar to all golfers but is especially resonant with Dr. Bob Rotella, the bestselling author of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and one of the foremost golf authorities today. In Putting Out of Your Mind, Rotella offers entertaining and instructive insight into the key element...

From the author of the bestselling Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect comes a masterly illumination of golf’s mental game. Dr. Bob Rotella follows up the success of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect with a book filled with anecdotes and motivational instruction focusing on the most important skill a...

Do you flinch on chip shots, chunk pitch shots, or feel paralyzed over routine short game shots? You're not alone — even Tiger Woods went through it. The short game yips can ruin rounds, destroy confidence, and make you dread shots you used to love. But Tiger found a way back — and so can you. In this practical, no-fluff guide, you'll discover exactly how Tiger Woods overcame his short game yips and returned to pitching and chipping with freedom and trust. Whether your problem is mental, mechanical, or both, this book gives you a step-by-step blueprint to fix it. You’ll learn: The ...

The biggest paradox in golf is that the harder you try to hit the ball, the worse you do so. In The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing, Michael McTeigue offers you a simple system of sequential body movements that produces a true swinging motion with every club in the bag. The result is increased distance and greater accuracy for all sizes, shapes, and ages of golfers for a minimum investment in learning time.

The perennially bestselling golf title, Golf in the Kingdom, hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as the "masterpiece on the mysticism of golf," is a wonderfully told romp through the Scottish links, the most beautiful and challenging golf courses in the world where, truly, anything is possible...

In The Little Book of Breaking 80, the author, a struggling amateur golfer who finally discovered the true keys to breaking 80 after more than 30 years of trial and error, blows the cover off of the hopelessly doomed conventional approach to golf improvement that keeps most golfers stuck on the endless merry-go-round of frustration and failure.

In Unconscious Putting, Stockton shows how players at every handicap level - from pros to weekend golfers - can putt effortlessly and with confidence by integrating a new mental approach with a few simple physical routines that will keep them locked on target. Listeners will also gain invaluable advice on reading greens and equipment.

Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within.

From the bestselling author of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and the preeminent golf psychologist to the game’s top players comes the defining guide to mastering the enormous challenges of chips, pitches, bunker shots, and putts. Dr. Bob Rotella is the preeminent golf psychologist to the...

An alternative to popular positive thinking, this groundbreaking audiobook on golf psychology, reveals the practical mindfulness, techniques, and philosophies that will help you to play your best golf when it matters. Author Jon Adler has worked with touring professionals and amateurs for over ten years, helping them to overcome mental problems and blocks by developing the art of relaxed concentration.

The twentieth anniversary edition of this classic work—the bestselling golf instruction book of all time and hailed as “the golfer's equivalent of The Elements of Style” (The New York Times)—includes a new introduction by a prominent golfer, twenty new illustrations, and...

When we inject more power than we can control, we introduce a degree of leverage, but, when it creeps in near the end, that is just before impact, it may produce no appreciable damage, provided the stroke has started as a swing and this action has been maintained almost up to the instant of impact. Furthermore, whatever of leverage is introduced in the brief instant just preceding impact is restricted to pure hand and wrist action, and does not involve conflicting actions between body movement and arm movement, which are bound to follow the introduction of leverage in starting the stroke. ...

Ready, set, swing! A children’s guide to golfing like a pro. Are you ready to step onto the golf course and discover a world of fun? Do you want to learn awesome golf tricks while having a blast with your friends? Are you up for the coolest adventure on the green? This book will take you on an epic golfing journey with much more than just swinging clubs. You’ll discover that golf is more than just a game. It’s a ticket to a world filled with laughter, challenges, and thrilling surprises. You won’t only be swinging clubs. You’ll be diving headfirst into a world where every hole is ...

Most golfers spend hours on the range without seeing real improvement. They chase YouTube tips, try to fix fifteen things at once, and get frustrated when they can’t achieve their goals. Coach Steve Small has worked with over 1,000 students and discovered something simple: the golfers who improve fastest aren't the ones who practice the most. They're the ones who keep their attention on their intention. In Breaking Bogey, you'll learn: Why breaking bogey is the milestone that changes everything The "two items on the menu" approach that actually creates improvement How to develop stock ...

An essential resource for golfers who want to play a smarter, more fulfilling game on the green.